On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:47 +0100, Maarten wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 06:24, Adam Felson wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:26 +0100, Maarten wrote: > > > On Monday 10 January 2005 21:27, Tim Smoot wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > I use bt878 cards, they'll work fine... ...IF your CPU has the power. > > > As it is, I _seriously_ doubt that an Eden 533 can handle it, not even > > > when just using rtjpeg... So no luck there. > > > > I never did get two bt878 cards to work without hiccups. I upped the > > CPU to an athlon 3000 (333mhz fsb) in the hope of running three dumb > > cards, but couldn't even handle two. > > Hm. That's a shame. Here I have a perfectly working two-card bttv setup. > System specs: > Athlon XP 2600, FSB overclocked from 200 to 233, 256 MB Ram. > Mythtv specs: > Recording directlyin mpeg4, rez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kbps. No recording filters, > only > deint on playback. > This system has been recording two channels simultaneously since a couple of > months. I _very_ rarely see or hear hiccups, and if I do it's often my > frontend that can't really cope. > But it needed a lot of tweaking and testing initially. > > No, an Athlon 3000 should have coped fine. Maybe you went overboard and > recorded at full PAL resolution, or something ? Or your signal strength is / > was below par (I had to buy an antenna amplifier myself). I was running 640x480 resolution. The was some noise on the signal, but not much.
> > > Pentium4's with their amazing FSB speed might do better. > > Don't believe the hype. Pay more for less ? 800mhz on the FSB might make a huge difference on processing video. > > Maarten > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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